Dystopian Mystery

How close would you hold those you love, when the end comes? In a society where self-preservation is as much an art as a science, Norah and Arthur are learning how to co-exist in their new little world. Though they hardly know each other, everything seems to be going perfectly - from the home they're building together to the ring on Norah's finger. But when the couple bring home a mysterious creature to seal in their loft space, they both must face a devastating truth which tests their bonds to family, memory, and each other forever.

Britain - sometime in the future. Law and order has broken down and people are fighting each other for the country's dwindling supply of food. Most of the Government have decamped to the Scilly Isles to avoid the riots.

Tanta has trained all her young life for this. Her very first mission is a code red: to take her team into the unaffiliated zone just outside InTech's borders and retrieve a stolen hard drive. It should have been quick and simple, but a surprise attack kills two of her colleagues, and Tanta barely makes it home alive. Determined to prove herself and partnered with a colleague whose past is a mystery even to himself, Tanta's investigation uncovers a sinister conspiracy that makes her question her own loyalties and the motives of everyone she used to trust.

Tokito - Stadt aus Blut und Schatten. In der Megastadt Tokito herrscht das Gesetz der Clans. Nur wer für einen der sechs Clanfürsten arbeitet, hat die Chance zu überleben. Die rebellische Erin hat ihren Job beim Lotusclan verloren und ist nun schutzlos. Als sie auf der Straße verschleppt wird, lässt sie sich auf einen Deal mit einem Dämon ein, um ihr Leben zu retten. Der Dämon verleiht ihr übernatürliche Kraft, versucht aber auch, die Kontrolle über Erin zu erlangen.

Es ist nichts Geringeres als eine medizinische Sensation: Durch die Entdeckung eines neuen Wundermittels kann der Alterungsprozess des Menschen aufgehalten werden! Wer das Medikament regelmäßig nimmt bleibt nicht nur ewig jung, er ist auch schöner und stärker als "normale" Menschen. Doch die neue Wunderdroge hat einen Haken: Man braucht dazu das Blut von Menschen, deren DNA eine besondere Sequenz aufweist. Oft werden diese "Träger" entführt und in Blutfarmen gefangen gehalten.

Schafft sich die Menschheit selber ab? "Singularity" ist der neue Science-Fiction-Thriller von Bestseller-Autor Joshua Tree über die Zukunft der künstlichen Intelligenz. Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts ist die Menschheit tief gespalten: Während die eine Hälfte medizinisch bestens versorgt ein langes Leben führt, ist die andere schlicht überflüssig. Bestenfalls als billige Arbeitskräfte haben die meisten Menschen ein karges Auskommen. Einer dieser Überflüssigen ist James, der als Hausdiener der neuen Elite anheuert.

Berlin in einer nahen Zukunft: Wer sich nicht scheut, gegen rigorose Gesetze zu verstoßen, kann seinen Körper mithilfe illegaler Prothesen in eine tödliche Waffe verwandeln - oder ein Objekt der Lust. Diese Kriminellen werden "Cheater" genannt. Viele der Veränderten finden ihr Auskommen im größten Club der Welt, dem Utopia Gardens.

In this sequel to The Organ Harvesters, the bloodless war of 2020 has destroyed all governments and left monster corporations in control globally, unhindered to waste the planet's natural resources, and to manipulate the world's population with iron-handed control. There's one last chance to save life on Earth. Roaming at large under a death warrant, Dr. Zoe Hidalga leaves behind both her daughter and her lover, mystic Asher Wind Storm, to return to Sanfrancorp to join the Defys, an underground resistance group that has spread throughout the world during the past six years.

Against all odds, Winnie managed to escape San Francisco…but now she is being stalked by Mutants that roam the Wasteland. Once human, exposure to radiation has rendered them more beast than man. But it has also made them incredibly strong and shockingly fast, putting Winnie’s own supernatural abilities to the test. If that weren’t enough, the people she cares about most are missing. The Council continues to hunt them down and will stop at nothing until they are destroyed. Will Winnie and her allies make it to Kansas City? If they do, will it be anything like they imagined?

In Eden Cavalleri’s world, zoos don’t exist. The Anthros do: a twisted place where cybernetics come to gawk at humans imprisoned behind glass. The machines have taken over the world above ground, and they intend to exterminate or imprison what’s left of the human race. Eden’s job as a runner is simple: survive long enough to bring back much-needed supplies to the other humans hiding in tunnels beneath the city. But after a botched supply run lands her under the glass domes as a zoo exhibit, her mission changes. Now, she has to learn to save herself instead of everyone else.

Children of divorce, Haley and Ben live with their mother. But their dad believes there’s a new, much deadlier pandemic coming and is determined to keep them alive. He wants to take them to his prepper hideaway where they will be safe from other people. NOW. But there’s no way their mother will go along with his plan. Saving them requires extreme measures.

When a global pandemic hits the UK, Capital Post journalist Stig Fisher finds himself being silenced by his editor for questioning the British prime minister about the validity of sweeping new powers that will put the population under house arrest. To stop him uncovering a scandal of historic proportions, Stig Fisher is sent to the Democrats convention in Chicago and instructed to do a magazine piece on a "Nut in a Hut" who runs a pagan community in the hills of Michigan. Things take a dark turn when he gets back to London.

Howell Warren hasn't seen another human face for over five years. If he did, that person could die at any time. This is the world of the "Sleeping Sickness". As the world recovers from a devastating solar flare, society is just getting back on track when a strange phenomena begins. Violent dreams are coming true all over the world. Those featured in the dreams are killed in real life, showing terrible injuries like those in the dreams. No one is safe because no one can control their dreams.

Das mittelhessische Dorf Umbach neunzehn Tage nach dem Blackout. Die Einwohner haben sich mit den neuen Umständen arrangiert, erleben aber immer wieder Rückschläge. Vieles, das vor dem Stromausfall als selbstverständlich angesehen wurde, muss nun mühsam erarbeitet werden. Während Malte mit dem Dorfrat das Dorf durch die Katastrophe führt, droht ihm das Verhältnis zu seinem Sohn zu entgleiten. Jutta steuert nun Kutschen statt eine 767 und beginnt zu ahnen, wie ihr Mann wirklich ist.

The Dictator in Chief, President Alejandro Calderon, continues to make life miserable for any and all surviving Americans. A new ruling class has been anointed and is fully entrenched in enclaves across America. The administration's enslaved masses labor and toil and tend to their every need in exchange for the oxygen needed to stay alive. Unbeknownst to Calderon, Josh and his ragtag band of patriots are headed straight for him. They know when and where he'll be, but can they make it there in time?

When Grace was 20, she had a front-row seat to the end of the world. What was once the perfect suburban life became a daily fight to stay alive. All that was is now gone forever. Determined, she prepares for what the future brings, armed with her instincts, the desire to protect her loved ones, and her iron will to survive. Just as Grace and her family adjust to this new uncertain environment, a much more terrifying threat emerges from within the darkness, one even more petrifying than the apocalypse itself….

Seventeen-year-old Caleb Shaw's eidetic memory makes him a valuable asset to a government that harvests children like him for their innate ability to create memory modules for the brain drive—an implantable device that stores information in the form of memories. Caleb discovers that his father has been sheltering him from the truth about the brain drive, and he begins to question everything about the world he grew up in. When he is ripped from his home and taken to a government facility, his eyes are opened to the atrocities committed against children for technological advancement.

Deutschland in naher Zukunft: Die regierende Partei "Heimatfront Deutschland" deportiert alle Migranten und politische Gegner in eine Hand voll hermetisch abgeriegelter sogenannter Flüchtlingsstädte. Elsa Jacobi, die charismatische Führerin der "HfD", herrscht mit eiserner Hand über die Republik und kontrolliert Medien und Staatsorgane mit Gewalt und Terror. Wie Marionetten manipuliert sie die Menschen um sich herum für ihre Zwecke. So auch den jungen Politstar Hassan, der getrieben vom Hass auf seine türkischen Wurzeln nach Anerkennung und Macht strebt.

When saving a life in 1946 Alabama, Amish giant Konrad took one in return and must run before the electric chair claims him. In New York, Nazi propaganda fools him into jumping on a ship to Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich. In 1965, at Gothengau, an SS-run colony in Ukraine, a terrorist rocket attack on Berlin compels soldier-farmer Konrad to focus on his duty: commanding an SS convict battalion. He must flex his muscle for the armed forces or the Holocaust's perpetrators--his superiors, colleagues, and neighbors in Ukraine.

Peter Payne fa il trashformer e per sopravvivere rovista nei cumuli di spazzatura cercando oggetti di valore. I suoi giorni trascorrono in mezzo agli scarti della società dei consumi e in compagnia di una banda di adolescenti, fino a quando non incontra Alba – un modello femminile di nexumano. Esplorando temi come la cibernetica, il consumismo e la trascendenza, Francesco Verso costruisce un mondo così profondo come il suo personaggio principale.